By Sarah Taylor
The Eight of Swords and the Nine of Wands have come up often enough recently for me to list their respective readings here from the past three months:
– Sunday, April 13, 2014 [Two of Disks, Eight of Swords, The Wheel of Fortune]
– Sunday, April 20, 2014 [Knight of Swords, Nine of Wands, Nine of Disks]
– Sunday, May 4, 2014 [Two of Disks, Nine of Cups, Eight of Swords]
– Sunday, June 15, 2014 [Nine of Wands, Princess of Disks, Seven of Cups]
My invitation: to look back — to the readings, and through your memory banks — and see if you can distinguish the pattern, theme or story that they bring into form. Are the dates significant? Feel into the two cards. Are they symbolic of something immediately recognisable in your life? More: has it seemed like there has been an endless back-and-forth quality to what they symbolise?
The reading this week is different in one significant way — that is, both cards appear together. My take on it is that this is a meeting point, or crux, of something that has been playing out over at least the last quarter, if not longer (the Eight especially has been present in earlier readings, the majority of those with the Rider-Waite Smith deck: different interpretation, same quality).
It looks like there is, at hand, the potential for a resolution, or the discovery of an exit point to a new way. What this looks like for you will depend entirely on your inner experience, and so my writing here will be short and to the point.